Daily Mass Gospel reflection - Divinely Childlike

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 11.29.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

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First Week of Advent
Luke 10:21–24

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus places a high value on childlikeness.
What is it about “the childlike” that Jesus prizes?
Jesus himself is the child, the Son who has received everything from his Father.
He lives in an attitude of receptivity, taking in all that the Father has given him.
His is a life of obedience.
He is not in command of his life, but he receives it as a gift.

This is what it means to be a little child:
to have an attitude of receptivity that allows you to be moved by God and by God’s ways.
The problem with “the wise and the learned” is not that they’re educated
but that they are trying to govern and run their own lives on their own terms
rather than living in obedience to God.
The truly wise are those who are like Christ:
little children in relation to God.

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+++ Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows who the Son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

Turning to the disciples in private he said,
“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
For I say to you,
many prophets and kings desired to see what you see,
but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”+++

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Might you delete one ?
Thanks

[IrishBrigade]

‘This is what it means to be a little child:’

except that I am not a child, I am an adult...why would I wish to retreat to childlike subservience to make decisions based on adult necessities...?

[MurphsLaw]

You are forever a child in the eyes of Almighty God.
And no, God does not want us to be idiot adults either.
Quite the opposite...
Christ tells us to (try) to be Perfect in all we do.

And it's only through this obedience to God - not to ourselves-
that we have any chance at all of perfecting all God created us to be...